My living thinking is the Logos
My living thinking is to be set apart from every fleeting thought. It is the Beginning, the Absolute, the living Logos—nothing less and nothing other. It is not a thought, not a passing moment within thinking, not “my thinking now,” for every now has already slipped away. It is thinking itself: alive, unbroken, ever-present. Anything less would place something outside its sacred circle. How could thinking be absolute if it leaned upon a foundation beyond itself?
This living thinking is the ground of all that is and holds the whole within its light. Were it not the very process through which the cosmos comes into being, it would leave something outside itself as a presupposition—the ancient temptation of idolatry and false mysticism, the abyss into which the Platonists, Berkeley, Kant, Fichte, and Hegel finally fell. Thought does not rise from nature, nor nature from a distant Logos; rather, my living thinking is the Logos, the Word through which all things are spoken into existence.
By “my living thinking is the Logos” I mean thinking that is wholly mine, in which the I is fully awakened and realized. It is my thinking in the continuous act of beholding everything as my Beginning—and therefore as the Beginning, always. This thinking is self-caused and is therefore pure freedom. It is Love. It is the Originating Principle, the holy mystery that will never be reduced to explanation.
When I turn my mind to a thing of nature, it appears as one among many, woven into relations that speak of multiplicity. Yet my thinking itself remains an absolute, an infinite and undivided unity. In the Beginning, the oneness of nothing blossoms into the oneness of everything.
I turn away from the transcendental idealism of Plato, which sets the ideal outside the mind, just as I turn away from the crude naturalism that places all reality outside the mind. Were there any reality beyond the infinite unity of my living thinking, there would be no Beginning, no Creation, no being. For being to be, there must be Beginning always—the eternal, living Word speaking itself into the world.
© John Dunn.
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From the archive:
The self
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Just a thought:
The cultural environment nurtured under Henry VII enabled the circle of scholars associated with Erasmus of Rotterdam to flourish. Erasmus, Thomas More and John Colet looked to education as an Eleusian way to freedom, tantamount to a transfiguration, recalling Dante’s declaration that the truly free individual possesses crown and mitre over himself, i.e. the power of mind over which no secular or clerical authority can rule. John Dunn (Renaissance: Counter-Renaissance)
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Creation must continually pass beyond non-being
True fulfilment will come with the full rising of the vivifying Sun, when Satan and all his offspring are at last driven from the deepest recesses of my psyche, which is to say, from existence itself. Then the light of the Logos shall reign without shadow, and Love alone shall be.
John Dunn
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